US Patent Issued to Inari Medical on March 18 for "Devices and methods for treating vascular occlusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,120, issued on March 18, was assigned to Inari Medical Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for treating vascular occlusion" was invented by Phil Marchand (Lake Forest, Calif.), Benjamin E. Merritt (San Clemente, Calif.), John C. Thress (Capistrano Beach, Calif.), Jacob F. Louw (Carlsbad, Calif.), Paul Lubock (Monarch Beach, Calif.) and Brian J. Cox (Laguna Nigel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for removal of thrombus from a blood vessel in a body of a patient are disclosed herein. The method can include: providing a thrombus extraction device including a proximal self-expanding member formed of a f...